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Joanne Chesimard, convicted in infamous murder of NJ trooper, dies in Cuba

September 26, 2025 10:39 amSeptember 26, 2025 7:47 pm

Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced Joanne Chesimard, a member of the Black Liberation Army convicted in the 1973 murder of New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster, died Thursday at age 78. She became one of the state’s most infamous...

Murphy still has no N.J. Supreme Court news on first day of judicial session

September 1, 2022 2:56 pmSeptember 7, 2022 12:39 am

It’s December 2023. President Joe Biden isn’t running for re-election, and New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy is one of 26 Democrats running to succeed him. On a debate stage in South Carolina, moderator Steve Kornacki tees up the question Murphy’s...

Rabner exhorts governor, legislature to address Supreme Court vacancies

May 20, 2022 10:44 amMay 20, 2022 12:49 pm

With one seat on the seven-member New Jersey Supreme Court vacant, another occupied by a temporary replacement judge, and a third held by a permanent justice who will hit the mandatory retirement age in seven weeks, Chief Justice Stuart Rabner...

N.J. Supreme Court orders release of Sundiata Acoli, who killed state trooper in 1973

May 10, 2022 12:03 pm

On a 3-2 vote, the New Jersey Supreme Court today ordered the release on parole of Sundiata Acoli, a former Black Panther who infamously killed New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster in 1973. The decision comes after a long process...